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“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.”–Stanley Marcus

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas. Considering the 180,000 attendees, perhaps we should be calling it the Statistics Electronics Show, per Stanley Marcus

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“Land on Mars, half a million dollars–a round trip ticket. It can be done.”–Elon Musk

“It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.”–Ray Bradbury

Even as NASA successfully deployed its latest Mars lander, Elon Musk was reasserting his intentions to go to Mars. Literally. Himself. I hope I live long enough to see if he makes it.

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–In a wide ranging interview, Elon Musk flatly stated that he doesn’t just want to send others to Mars, he wants to move there himself. He set the odds of his doing so at 70%. I’m guessing Vegas would set odds a bit longer than that.

“We are approaching the end of the line for automobiles.”–Bob Lutz

Elon doesn’t believe in flying cars, either. But then his bread is buttered on a more conventional side. And he certainly isn’t shy about providing ever more driver auto-assist features to his Teslas. I’ll be talking to strong proponents of both autonomous and flying cars in the next two Seeking Delphi™ podcast episodes; in the mean time the manual vs. autonomous argument is all over this week’s news.

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Coming soon–a three-part Seeking Delphi™ podcast series on future driving–including episodes on self-driving cars and flying cars. Up first, Alex Wyglinski of IEEE on the importance of connectivity in self-driving cars.

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride”–John F. Kennedy.

I wonder how JFK would have felt about an electric bike ride. Yes, an eBike. They are coming, as everything, but everything, seems to be adding technology.

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“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.”–Tom Stoppard

The future tech news continues to be dominated by artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and space commerce. Some of it is exciting, some of it is disturbing and some of it–well, I’m not sure what to think. When you read about an A.I. generated paiting fetching big bucks at auction, you just have to scratch your head.

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Portrait of Edmund Bellamy, produced by A.I.

ArtficialIntelligence–An A.I. generated painting has sold for $432,000 at auction. Is this why A.I. developers get paid so much? Christie’s had estimated a value of between $7,000 and $10,000–which on the surface of it seems excessive in itself. Apparently, some people have more money than they know what to do with.

“To me–old age is always ten years older than I am.”–Bernard Baruch

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”–Mark Twain

Ah, yes. I have attained the age at which I truly appreciate the comments of monsiuers Baruch and Twain. And I really appreciate the efforts of those who aim to keep senescence–and dentures–indefinitely in the future.

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“If I go to hotels, they always say, ‘Welcome back’, even when I’ve never been there before.“– Geena Davis

There’s a solution to Geena Davis’s problem. I don’t know if you’re going to like it. But I know the hotel workers of the world are scared to death of it. Even as the World Economic Forum projects that robots will create more jobs than they kill, hospitality workers around the world are talking unionizing to protect jobs if Alexa replaces them on the front desk.

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Automation/Future of Work–The New York Times reports that front desk robots and facial recognition may soon be coming to a hotel near you. And hotel workers around the world are not pleased.